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I always wonder how much these factors affect a comment's score: * Proximity to the top of the page * Time of day posted * Number of sibling comments and the
by 3131s 10y ago
I always wonder how much these factors affect a comment's score:
* Proximity to the top of the page
* Time of day posted
* Number of sibling comments and the score of those comments
On reddit, for example, it seems impossible to get noticed once there are already a few highly-upvoted replies to the comment you're replying to.
- fudged71 10y agoI've been kicking myself that I didn't take sociology in university to study conversational dynamics on threaded internet forums. It continues to fascinate me